IBM has become the third largest supplier of security-software

IBM has become the third largest supplier of security-software

IBM has surpassed Japan's Trend Micro, becoming the third largest global supplier of security-software. Managed to achieve this with the purchase of an IT company Trusteer. This is stated in the report, analyst firm Gartner. two largest players in this market are Symantec and McAfee. Over the past 12 months, two of these total sales increased by 4.9% to 19.9 billion dollars. According to metric Gartner, IBM Corporation in the last 12 months increased sales to $ 1.14 billion. Recall that the Israeli Trusteer was purchased in August last year for $ 1 billion. 

The company develops software to detect spyware and malicious activity on the network, as well as to prevent hacker attacks. Simultaneously, Trend Micro sales decreased by 5.3% to 1.11 billion dollars. Symantec's revenue decreased by 0.3% to $ 3.7 billion. Recall that in March this year, Symantec CEO changed (making it the second time in the last two years). 

At the same time, the company said sovdir that Symantec was seeking a new strategy and new sources of revenue growth. Revenue McAfee increased by 3.9% to $ 1.7 billion. Fifth place in the ranking company EMC, which owns the security solutions provider RSA Security, it increased its revenues in this segment to $ 760 million.